presentational

Example Sentences

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I find that playwrights are often at their liveliest when writing in a presentational mood.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

In the absence of any real developments, attention in Ukraine turned to the presentational aspects of the summit – the "optics", in political speak.

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2025

The Lyon experience was flatter, more presentational than lived — and also confusing.

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2023

In 2020, longtime military graphics collector Tim Hwang launched a Twitter account, @DefenseCharts, a feed “dedicated to the presentational aesthetics of the defense-industrial complex.”

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2023

The films all home in on this distinction between a presentational online persona and the actual self.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2022